Splicing and Editing
Download the files from -------> https://www.dropbox.com/s/ufluc5ge5u0re0j/lab%20audacity.zip
You will find a zip file called “splicing and editing.zip”. Download this and
uncompress it to your hard drive.
Open up the file in Audacity and listen to
the two audio tracks.
Track 1 says: “I
can edit digital audio”
Track 2 says:
“Watch me splice and normalise”
Your task is to edit the content of these
clips to create a single clip that says: “I can splice digital audio.”
You will need to trim the region to locate
the required segments ready for splicing.
You should first ensure that the audio has
consistent amplitude between the two clips before joining them so that the two
clips appear seamless at the end.
Bleeping unwanted speech
This task will give you more practice at
selecting and editing specific sections of digital audio in Audacity and
introduces sound synthesis as a new technique.
The task
Take a look at the following text. On
Blackboard, you will find an audio file with this text spoken through a speech
synthesiser called:
“bleeping exercise (before).wav”
“Audio and Music Production is a cracking
good course at Liverpool John Moores University. You can learn about all kinds
of tools and equipment that will transform you into an employable
graduate in the future.
The lecturers are helpful and
the facilities are great. I can honestly say this course is fantastic
and recommend this course to any person looking for an interesting
degree.”
Your task is to bleep out the highlighted
sections using the Generate Tone feature in Audacity. We will
synthesise a bleep using a sine wave at a frequency of 1 kHz.
You can download and listen to the complete
(bleeped) version on Blackboard – the file is called:
“bleeping exercise (after).wav”
